The Men Going Their Own Way movement (MGTOW, pronounced "mig-tau"; adherents are MGTOWers or miggies) is an offshoot of the men's rights movement advocating male separatism.[2] Adherents buy into the rhetoric of men's rights advocates, but instead of trying to address (alleged) issues, they have vowed either to stay away from women altogether or to stop dating/marrying women and having children.[3] In other words, it's a hilarious analog to the lesbian separatist movement, but without homosexuality — the LGBT rights movement is an feminist, Cultural Marxist, obstacle to male self-ownership, apparently.[4] MGTOWers often claim to have been subjected to mistreatment by women,[5] but are thereafter unable to see a distinction between those who hurt them and women in general. It's unclear if the movement has grown beyond self-isolating men complaining about their lot in life in the new world and criticizing the other gender. Examples of MGTOW groups which have actually "gone their own way" and discuss and support one another in MGTOW life beyond gender comparisons and the unfair world, are difficult if not impossible to find.

The "going their own way" part is often framed not just as manly self-preservation but as a "strike" that is supposed to punish women. In the worldview of all too many MGTOWers, women are succubus-like creatures who seduce men in order to exploit them, but are unable to live without men's support. (It's worth mentioning the strong whiff of overt misogyny wafting around.) There are amusing parallels here with the notion of "going Galt" that is popular among libertarians who overestimate their importance to society. It's perhaps telling that despite professing to 'go their own way' they seem utterly obsessed with women in their Internet forums- oddly similar to how the Freedom From Atheism Foundation is morbidly obsessed with irreligious people, despite constantly professing to be “free” from their “militancy”.

MRA memes commonly pop up in MGTOW narratives including: good-guy-loser/successful-bad-boy-player,[6]men as the oppressed gender, friendzone, incel, and misandry. The best way for man-hermits to avoid and be done with the devious cunning shenanigans of the females, is to never stop bitching about them while reinforcing one another's bias, preferably in a damp and dank basement man-cave.

While they have a number of things in common (most notably a troubling preoccupation with misogyny and obvious implications of an obsession with references to the 90's movie The Matrix,[12][13][14][15][16]), the MRA and MGTOW communities have been known to butt heads. Men's Rights Advocates take issue especially with MGTOWs who choose to keep their distance from them with regards to marriage and making children.[17]

Some MGTOW advocate cutting off all ties with the outside world and essentially living a life of solitude; this is known as going ghost. Others have been known to advocate literally going ghost; i.e., suicide.[23] This shouldn't be confused with dating term "ghosting", which is cutting off all contact with a (soon-to-be-former) significant other rather than a formal break-up.